Conversion of Jonathan Crosby to Mormonism

Conversion of Jonathan Crosby to Mormonism

Makechnie, Cope

Lyman, Edward Leo, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth, eds. No Place To Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities. University Press of Colorado, 2005. doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cgp1q.

Conversion between religion

Baptism

1833-12-02

Jonathan Crosby was converted by a misisonary, Horace Cowan, in 1833. He was the only member of his family to be baptized, but his wife was baptized a year after their marriage, as was his younger sister.

“My husband had been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints one year previous to our marriage. His religion was strange and new to us, and some of our friends seemed to feel sorry that I had fallen in with such a society of people.” — “No Place to Call Home”

Lyman, Edward Leo, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth, eds. No Place To Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities. University Press of Colorado, 2005. doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cgp1q.